skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simulation problem has kept me up at night. I think I figured out the answer to it though. If you were to create a simulation you would have to keep it running. Not for any moral reason, but because if we are ourselves a simulation attempting to answer the question of what to do with a simulation, it is in our interest for the answer to be, "keep it on."
Wait until you find out who was president in 2020!
Agreed with other commenters, we use gitlab CI extensively, and we find it great. That's the main reason we use gitlab, the code/repository part is not that great and we don't use the other stuff
Tesla have their own custom plug. They appear on the map in the car and the car tells you if the station is full (or partially broken) of people and potentially re-routes you. Tesla charge location also usually have multiple very high performance chargers. Tesla chargers are usually higher at charging that the waste majority of other chargers. Payment is fully integrated with your Tesla account.

So its drive in, plug in, wait, plug out and drive away.

Pretty much non of that works consistently for other networks and the are usually slower and you have to spend there longer as well.

There are standards for the plug, standards, Europe is well standardized, US a bit less, China is a bigger mess. Important to note however, the plug is standard, the payment system on the other hand is not. Or rather it is partially standardized but the software compatibility might not actually work very well or is simply not implemented at all.
It’s a relevant science story to HN and I share because it’s directly affected my friend who is a firefighter on Nantucket. This stuff needs more attention.

https://youtu.be/s4lGGMdF8Ds
Curious: does the show take equity IF the sharks invest? I haven't really seen the show beyond a few episodes.
We've been running this since March last year.

It started as a "traditional hack day" with themes, teams etc, but we've morphed it into a more casual get together with random people working on fun stuff. We'd love to get more people involved!
I had forgotten those terms.. yea nothing mysterious going on here. This is well understood situation. Everyone should take micro-economics not matter the profession.
Is Robinhood Down?
its interesting how they got that to become the prevailing narrative now
Perhaps reducing invasive employee surveillance will lighten the memory load
"The CPI market basket is developed from detailed expenditure information provided by families and individuals on what they actually bought."

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm#Question_3

So if families are buying in lower quantities then yes it would be accounted for.
That was not the point. I was commenting on my perception of your different level of engagement.

And a quick search with algolia justifies that : there are very little Gitlab threads where you have been absent.
If I may provide some feedback:

Line 2:
while pgrep $1 >/dev/null; do sleep 2; done && $*
^-- SC2086: Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting.
^-- SC2048: Use "$@" (with quotes) to prevent whitespace problems.

Also, how do you pick the right job to wait for if several programs match $1? (E.g. if it's a bash script, $1 will be "bash", which on my system matches lots of things.)

Also, a 2s sleep will slow things down if you want to use it for a whole lot of jobs.

Also, this won't run your second command if the first command you wait for has already exited!

Also, shouldn't $* be `shift; "$@"` or do you only ever queue jobs of the same command?
This is basically the reason we are building Eduflow (www.eduflow.com), a learning management system for active learning. Some things can and should be learned by a series of videos, but if you want to learn a real skill deeply, then you need to engage with the material in some way.
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Anyone who's professionally coding right now has one super-effective option that's rarely talked about:
Hire someone knowledgeable to walk you through what you're learning.

I've been doing a heavy C++ project, and as a web developer, I was basically a walking footgun. I realized this early on, hired a total expert in the field (the guy has contributed to C++ standards committees before), and am Loving how smoothly this project is going thanks to learning from him. It's incredibly fun.

I pay the guy $150/hr in 10 hour chunks and get the most in-depth insight into what I'm doing, how to revise my code, what the code means in the first place, etc. It's perfect if you know how to code but find yourself in a brand new domain. I still learn outside of our hour-long mentor sessions, of course.

Skip the MOOC, hire the teacher.

..and then also do the MOOC, honestly they're pretty great.
Hey loved followers: "you see that yemeni kid over there? He was talking shit about you."
Credit where it's due: my link was posted by phreeza at the top of this discussion.

Anyhow, you're right: the difference between a 28mm focal length and a 400mm one is...extreme. Here's a set of images (just a landscape; not COVID-related) showing different focal lengths[0] in action that illustrates just how much so, taken from the same location.

I'm pretty confident it's the same area in the Showa Kinen photos the more I look at them, but that just illustrates how unhelpful an example the chosen images actually were. The huge difference is focal length is effectively the same as shooting an entirely different scene. It's not a good example, but it may have just been the only one the editor had available at the time.

0. https://capturetheatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/under...
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The problem with the curre t "AI" technology is it is only approximately correct (or rather, it is somewhat likely to produce a "good" result). This gives great use-cases when it comes to human perception, as we can filter out or correct small mistakes and reject big ones. But when used as input to a machine, even the smallest mistake can have huge consequences. Admittedly, this nonlinearity also applies when human beings "talk" to machines, but the input to and output of a single human being will always be constrained, whereas a machine could output billions of programs per day. I don't think it would be wise to follow that route before we have computational models that can cope with the many small and few big mistakes an "AI" would make.
You also don't need a Costco membership to purchase alcohol. And a lot of Kirkland liquor is the absolute bomb.
The change that's going to happen is loss of public trust of science, and people will start burning down 5g towers or refusing to take vaccines.
To clarify: not a new CEO (current one has been in place since April 2019) but rather an activist shareholder who bought a large stake and got seats on the board as a result, and that guy has the e-commerce turnaround story
I'm not saying do everything at home for everyone. But if some people did minor things (first aid type stuff) at home, that would free up the system for more important cases. Just think of all the people that fo to the doctor with a cold. A little education could go a long way.
compare price of labor between usa and india. Outsourcing everything to asia will be beneficial for company (and probably consumers since lower prices), but not for americans who work for cuban rn
Here is an extensive list of videos being posted by Parler users during the riot: https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/

Apple isn't going to stop enforcing their content policies just because someone chooses to lie about auto-update. Parler absolutely did play a role here due to their repeated and documented refusals to abide by terms and conditions and Apple isn't to blame for rumours that bad actors choose to spread.

You're suggesting that they should refrain from regulating one bad actor which they do control because they would then somehow be responsible for the actions of bad actors which they do not control.
I personally alternate between taking courses and doing projects.

Doing all MOOC is bad for some of the reasons the articles covered. But doing all projects is also sub-optimal because sometimes it is hard to know what you don't know. Balancing theory and practice works the best for me.
I think out of the group you named at least Zuckerberg and Bezos have sold their souls to the devil
I've been thinking about this a lot this past decade or so, and it is an interesting question. One thought I've had is that a perception (real or not) of inequality is baked into our species as being bad, particularly when it gets extreme. Why might that be? Well, if my neighbor generally has more resources than me, it's usually not that big of a deal. You maybe have more or better food, or some nicer things, but if my needs are met and I have things I can enjoy, I don't get worried.

Now, if you suddenly have a lot more than me, say you have enough to provide for other people in a meaningful way, I start to get concerned. Why? Because you don't just have more than me, you start having power over me. And if I don't stop inequality increasing, that could quickly get to the point that I can't do anything about it. Your power can become absolute, for all practical purposes.

I think humanity has learned culturally, if not genetically, that really bad situations arise if someone has way more than you. Power corrupts and all that, and gross inequality becomes power.

Of course, these days, it might not be "real", meaningful inequality (Jeff Bezos has a lot of wealth, but it is wealth tied up in Amazon, mostly, and the US Government has far, far more wealth), but the perception is there, and the perception is enough to trigger concern.
I suffered a head trauma and subsequent infection that depleted my vocabulary to kindergarten level over 2 weeks and took 5 years to recover from - I can absolutely vouch for the struggle that I experienced with sketchy stuff like this, I felt like I was physically being dragged into a quick sand put every time I came across anything like this and was still fighting my way out the next day. I had a stupidly elite education and prior knowledge didn't count as much as ingrained reflex in saving my butt.
Gotta feed the furnace so that you come out on top...

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f3/f9/6c/f3f96c06ddc73aa35cfa...
Here are some more retro-computing/gaming channels:

8-Bit Show and Tell: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3gRBswFkuteshdwMZAQafQ

8-Bit Show and Tell 2: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAgWzEh5c8391eJnELDy9OA

Ms. MadLemon: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSlMemxuBOFu6Rz_Al02nHQ

Retr0b1ts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnua6gZFiw77kxwNChkXGuw

Tech Time Traveler: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0UflzOybq16vw7b638_-pg

GroundhogGrafix Retro: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69FZpaObtyLkOoupq5ocPw

Jan Beta: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCftUpOO4h9EgH0eDOZtjzcA

Vintage Computer Federation: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKdBVD2wVUkuJQZhxGvVr0Q

Brian's Man Cave: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCox4nRDv3CMfTsz5drF64lg

Kay Savetz: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgtj2VfQ6MvKRn3Gr_OGykA

tschak909: https://www.youtube.com/user/tschak909/featured

10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSWXB7cc8mAtCjK8iXAJc1A

8-Bit and More: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmyydM9_kZHk49GXC4r-FKw

Retro Recollections: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoxB8deF5Z_mV1U7ey4tszA

Modern Classic: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoLccjs6jbHa4soeYDgbKTg

Dan Wood: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4nYiUwSqo220UNT1xrpZ_Q

Todd's Nerd Cave: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh8xnRFb7pkMOj50QtDVkgg

Digilogue Collection: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7HbC_nq8t1S9l7qGYL0mTA

Amiga Love: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_RmsVU5hpLoHXgmzKav4Gg

The Modern Atari 8-Bit Computer: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmzjD_biYJ5hQf-MoK9Ztcw

8-Bit Keys: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcTt3O4_IW5gnA0c58eXshg

Mind Flare Retro: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBbbiZC2YodIp2Pi-lywG-A

hellfire64: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwxHPs5AGBwzXQHjSUS1wHA
sudo doesn't have to grant full root access to everyone in the group. It can be set up such that certain users only have the ability to run specified commands as root, which is handy for orgs where you might have a group of tier 1 techs that you want to be able to run certain scripts (written by tier 2 or 3, of course) that require root, but you don't trust the engineers enough to have root access to everything.
This is cool, but what they're claiming is puzzling. Perhaps someone here can clarify.

Making generic drugs is non-trivial. The medicinal chemistry may be decades old, but you still need to do trials to demonstrate efficacy equivalency to the non-generic version. Are they really saying they'll do 100 of these trials by the end of the year?

While this is cool, I'm thinking that this type of initiative should be done by the federal government. A generic drug "mint" if you will.
Yes. But do they automagically create and maintain database indexes for the most common requests made by your webclients?
Cool now just stop using a non standard connector if you actually cared about the environment. Tesla's sold in Europe come with CCS2, let's just make a standard that all electric cars have the change charge port.
I certainly think you are asking a fair question, but I also think it is understandable that such operations would be considerably expensive. The equipment to remove oil rigs is not cheap [0] and I would assume the demand for such ships is high. Also, I can imagine that a rushed decommission can lead to various ecological disasters that would then cost more to clean up than a proper decommission (+ the added environmental damage)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsnW5CHrpQ8 - "How Do You Move an Oil Rig? With This Enormous $200M Ship"
I'm on west coast and my entire community lost internet right now.
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> The US is actually the only developed nation without a public healthcare system,

That's false on multiple counts. First of all, the US does have a public healthcare system, Medicare and Medicaid. Second of all, there exists other developed nations with fantastic healthcare systems that are driven by purely private systems: namely Switzerland (widely regarded to be one of the best healthcare systems on the planet) and the Netherlands. Even more perfectly fine developed nations operate on public/private mixes, including Germany and Belgium.

> it also has the highest healthcare costs of any nation on earth. Coincidence?

In this case, it is indeed a coincidence. In order to attribute "privateness" to the high cost, you have to show a causal relationship. Unfortunately, there's a lot of evidence that makes it very difficult to draw that causal line: private Medicare Advantage plans are about 39% cheaper than the public "Original Medicare" (https://healthpayerintelligence.com/news/medicare-advantage-...), while also being of higher quality (https://healthpayerintelligence.com/news/medicare-advantage-...). In urban areas, the private Medicare Advantage plans cost less to administer per capita than the public "Original Medicare" (https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...).
The trick with posters like the GP is to:

1. Not respond.

2. Flag/downvote.

When they pop into threads like this one (which are more likely to pull in trolls and kin), flagging will quickly result in accounts like this ending up shadowbanned.
I completely agree with you. That is why we started Tangerine Health (https://www.tangerinehealth.co). We charge a flat rate of $25 per visit. With new policy changes to Telehealth, we also launched virtual primary care with the same pricing model. If you have insurance we accept Aetna and UHC. We are in the process of getting Blue Cross as well. I believe also doctor's office visits are covered by HSA (not 100% sure but here's a link found: https://www.foley.com/en/insights/publications/2020/03/covid...).
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I too had a lot of respect for Cuban regarding this.

Article from Inc:

Mark Cuban Made Shark Tank Change Its Contracts After threatening not to return until an equity clause was removed from contestants' contracts, Mark Cuban finally got his way.

Just for appearing on the show, owners agree to give up 5% of their company or 2% of future royalties.

...

Cuban said the clause was removed retroactively, meaning every contestant who's appeared on the show since Season One will be relieved of the commitment. However, how that will work out logistically remains unclear.

https://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/mark-cuban-forces-shark-ta...
I think you are making a more articulate defense of private/market based health care than i usually hear. but i think fundamentally health care has too many forces that make it untenable for a market. there is no real satiation point in care, people are price inelastic, many services cannot be priced before delivery, there is little opportunity to do repeated business for most of the costliest services, comparison between providers is very difficult, most of the choice happens under incredible duress when you are your weakest point. health care is just not a consumer good that responds well to market mechanisms.
https://techau.com.au/tesla-supercharger-ccs2-upgrades-are-h...
One reason seems to be that the calls seem to be made by fly-by-night call centers and are selling as 3rd party affiliates of otherwise "legitimate" companies.

I use quotes around legitimate because they really aren't legitimate. But they work enough at arm's length to the crooked call centers that they manage to avoid getting shut down.

This is very common practice in a lot of scams now. I think we need some new legislation requiring the vetting of affiliates that bring in more than X dollars.
That doesn't explain the lack of a noscript message, which is the difference between "we really need you to turn on javascript" and "as you can plainly see, our page is broken".
Thank you. I prevaricate your response.
yeah felt the same, didn't feel like I was reading a blog more like the landing page with how big/sectioned everything was. read on 1920x1080
One of my goals with Cosmopolitan is to attract developers who build high-level languages. MirageOS depends on OCaml which depends on C. We need a sturdy foundation at the lowest levels that can enable these visions by helping high-level environments be successful. Cosmopolitan can be that foundation. For example, the codebase has 192 test programs. Much focus has been placed on using the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer and Address Sanitizer to vet everything. My past experience was working on projects like TensorFlow and I started security initiatives like Operation Rosehub which together helped us have the highest performance software infrastructure that's safer too.
Different types of food are fungible goods. If broccoli is expensive I can instead purchase carrots and still survive. If I think chemotherapy is too pricey, I can't take an aspirin instead to treat the cancer (at least not with the same prognosis).
You should check out this time-to-event neural network [1].

[1] https://github.com/ragulpr/wtte-rnn
They treat them like adults if the adults are prisoners essentially.
If the play here were a simple pump and dump, that would all be accurate. Your ability to sell at 10,000% relies on there being a greater fool and that greater fool that ends up holding the bag could often be just a regular person investing unwisely.

The social media hype here is about this being a short squeeze. Large institutional investors have taken short positions and will likely be compelled to purchase to purchase shares at whatever price when margin calls come in on Friday. The current share price does not reflect the potential to profit off Gamestop as a company, it reflects the potential to profit off of the institutions that have taken incredibly risky short positions.

Here, the greater fool is already committed to buying your shares, and the timeline for that purchase is known with enough certainty to make this a fairly low-risk play.
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But we have markets in necessities and they work just fine. What's the difference from healthcare?
My setup for adding OpenGraph images to my blog posts was to design them in Figma, export the image to JPG, store it as a static asset and link to it in the meta tags.

Figma allows linking to frames, but those links are suited for humans, for sharing and collaboration. I was looking for a way to link to an image generated from a frame, which is possible with the Figma REST API.

So I set out to build a little tool to take a link to a Figma Frame, and resolve it to the rendered image.

Since Figma handles versioning, it returns updated URLs when the design changes. As the frame URL is stable, there is no need to update the og:image tag when the design changes.

As a side note: this would work for any type of image, but og:images seemed a good fit.
These days I think the Puritans were right about some of that stuff.

Weed is pretty addicting. It's nowhere near as bad for you as it's been made out to be, but it's still bad for you.

Music is the worst in my opinion. Most of the most popular music is full of terrible lyrics which only promote bad things and rarely ever promote good things. Constant misogyny, hypersexuality, etc. A large part of pop music is selling "sexy" older boy bands to preteen girls (which is super creepy).

And kids are addicted to this stuff like crazy. I've seen 8 year old kids throw tantrums because someone told them they can't listen to this garbage pop music while doing homework.

It's not good for small kids to be exposed to sexuality the way pop music does it. And that's super obvious. If thinking that makes me a Puritan, then so be it.
The libertarian angle does not work in real life, even if we ignore the regulatory capture practiced by insurers. Because there are not enough doctors/nurses in the country, you as a patient will always compete for medical attention with other patients. This will only drive prices up.
Also in the "signed up for waitlist but never heard back". I signed up a couple of times because I thought I might have done it from an address that got filtered out at first.
That's disappointing.

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity.

Certainly makes that statement seem less credible.
For the interested:

https://www.ft.com/content/1fcb4d60-b1df-11e8-99ca-68cf89602...

"Was this the right call? I think so. All our competitors also shunned any photos of Manhattan bank branches. The right to free speech does not give us right to shout fire in a crowded cinema; there was the risk of a fire, and we might have lit the spark by shouting about it."

Enraging. You're allowed to shout fire in a crowded theater if there is, you know, a fire. Tapping all the people in the box seats on the shoulder to give them a heads up about the fire so they can get to the exit before everyone stampedes for it is sociopathic, not social-minded.

I guess it's to his credit that he admitted to this, in the same sense that I'd credit a murderer confessing his crime and bringing the police to the body.
"Cuban Drug Company" would be more fun
What, you aren't a fan of needless suffering?
Designers don't really know or understand the limits of how you can style a select box. Nor should they need to. A good team will work together around the limits.

Also, FWIW some of the problem is with the browser makers (still!!). CSS still has a lot of browser specific quirks when working with some components.
Interestingly it seems 34 tons of plutonium would be 1.71 cubic meters.
I want affordable drugs. But not sure I want to rely on the goodwill of a single private enterprise billionaire to get them.
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